Despite the series lasting just five games, the Cavaliers put quite a scare in the Warriors by nearly winning Game 3, dominating Golden State in Game 4, and then playing them hard until the final minutes of Game 5. LeBron James averaged a triple-double for the series, Kyrie Irving was at his absolute best, but they were simply outgunned as Durant and Stephen
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Boko Haram factional leader, Abubakar Shekau, has denied a report earlier this week that suggested he was hit in an airstrike by the military in Borno State. Shekau, in a video message posted online on Thursday, said claims that he was injured in an attack by the air force were untrue.
He was reportedly wounded and one of his deputies killed when two air force
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Serena aims to move past Germany's Steffi Graf in the record books We look back at the career of Serena Williams as she attempts to land a record-breaking 23rd Grand Slam title at the Australian Open on Saturday.
Williams has won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, a fortune in prize money and honours, and if she lifts the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup on Sunday
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Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has appeared in a video denying Nigerian government claims that the insurgent group has been chased out of its Sambisa forest stronghold. Shekau said it was recorded on Christmas Day, December 25, but did not say where. He spoke in both Hausa and Arabic.
“We are safe. We have not been flushed out of anywhere. And tactics
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Nigeria has recently trumpeted a major victory in its battle against Boko Haram, claiming that its army has routed the jihadists from their forest bastion, but the war against them is far from over. But an army source has said how Shekau escaped from Sambisa remains a mystery.
After years of devastating battles and a recent surge in attacks, the fear in Nigeria
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Former Cabinet Minister William ole Ntimama will be buried at the family’s graveyard at his Motonyi home, Narok County, next Saturday, his family announced Saturday. Addressing the press at the home, his son Tempes Ntimama said the family had resolved to bury the fallen Maasai kingpin next Saturday, but it can be changed depending on the government’s
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Neither the Coalition nor Labor was able to secure the 76 House of Representatives seats required to form government. Initial results have seen a considerable lower house swing against the ruling party, with seats lost to Labor and independents.
As the clock approached midnight, supporters welcomed federal Labor leader Bill Shorten to the campaign headquarters
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Prince left behind no known will when he died April 21, and the work of settling his multimillion-dollar estate is being carried out behind closed doors by tight-lipped lawyers. Estate attorneys unconnected to the case say they have a pretty good idea what's happening, starting with a careful accounting of the megastar's assets, debts and whether any unknown
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prince left behind no known will when he died April 21, and the work of settling his multimillion-dollar estate is being carried out behind closed doors by tight-lipped lawyers. Estate attorneys unconnected to the case say they have a pretty good idea what's happening, starting with a careful accounting of the megastar's assets, debts
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Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid a visit on Friday to a tiny artillery outpost in Iraq, presenting Purple Hearts to four service members wounded in a recent rocket attack that also killed an American Marine. During a stop in Iraqi Kurdistan at the end of a three-day visit to Iraq, Dunford slipped away by helicopter
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